ISO/IEC 7816 Integrated Circuit Card Family of Specificaions

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Data sheet for Integrated Circuit Card Family of Specificaions

Title	Integrated Circuit Card Family of Specificaions
Acronym
Version	1999-2020
Document Number	7816
Release Date	N/A
Reference	https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:7816:-13:ed-1:v1:en

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Introduction

ISO/IEC 7816 is a series of International Standards specifying integrated circuit cards and the use of such cards for interchange. These cards are identification cards intended for information exchange negotiated between the outside world and the integrated circuit in the card. As a result of information exchange, the card delivers information (computation result, stored data), and/or modifies its content (data storage, event memorization).

Five parts are specific to cards with galvanic contacts and three of them specify electrical interfaces.

All the other parts are independent of the physical interface technology. They apply to cards accessed using contacts and/or by contactless methods.

ISO/IEC 10536 specifies access by close coupling. ISO/IEC 14443 and ISO/IEC 15693 specify access by radiofrequency. Such cards are also known as contactless cards.